I miss being married.

But it could be worse!

Now if I want to lock myself inside the house, I can.
And if I want to take someone out, I can.
And if I want to take someone ELSE out, I can!

But I miss being married, I do.

(and maybe someday I'll actually indulge myself in that guilty someone / someone else pleasure. maybe not.)

All these "too fat", "too thin" threads...
Somewhere in between is THE BEST!

There's nothing wrong with healthy.

If you are a bit to either side of that happy-medium...
...AT LEAST SMILE!

Wait - I didn't mean "slap me just for fun"...
That didn't sound right...

Seriously!
That's not a cheesy one, that's a funny one...
I'm half tempted to go to a bar just to see how many girls laugh vs. slap me just for fun!

It *is* a really cool car.
Did he cry when you threw his clothes out the window, and told him not to come back for the keys to the car or Uncle Rocco would find him?

Bipolar nothing...
I'd be more worried about what led you to buy every overtestosteroned bachelor's dream musclecar - a late 70's Trans Am?

Either it's bi-something-else, or somehow you took it from some dude...

I wouldn't want to be next - and I just broke up with a bi-something-else...

I thought the Rate My Profile was helpful!

I wasn't getting any views, any responses, so I put up a WTF in that forum.

And I learned a lot about how things work here, and even got some good tips on what would be good to include in my profile description...

Sometimes people need intervention - I kind of look at it like being featured on What Not To Wear... sometimes you need help!

I think we're in a modern world... roles are a bit of an outdated concept.

Granted I've always been attracted to independent women... feminist types who don't fly the feminist flag.

But I really do believe that since "perception is reality", there's probably a bigger risk of artificially limiting ourselves in the roles we think we can play, for most people.

Or am I just discounting the quaint comfort of tradition and risking funny looks from society?

No one is a reasonable person in a battle of convictions... and both people might be equally deserving of respect-

Where I don't have strong convictions I'm very open minded. How's that?

To some people, being reasonable means "you just be a doormat, because I don't want to be criticized".

Personally, I think that's unreasonable

I have, and it wasn't a bad idea.

We were friends... we dated for probably nearly a year... sex was great, lol... and then we broke up. Now she's dating some guy, and we're friends again.

What's wrong with that?

Total agreement.

But I still think you should try out the pickle juice line next time you are out...

I wonder if you can buy or watch the first season - that was better because of that

That's what I mean - it's not trickery if you really see what they are doing. Trickery is letting women test you - is she letting you buy her a drink as an opportunity to meet you? Aren't chances better that she's letting you buy her a drink because "oh well, at least I get a drink?"

One of his rules of last season is to never buy a woman a drink, and there's some great logic behind that...
Then, you aren't lowering yourself to being the same as every other guy in the bar, and no perception of desperation... so you aren't basically "paying her" to talk to you. "Oh please talk to me, I'll buy you a drink if you do" is really what that gesture is all about, if you think about it. And if you want to meet 4 or 5 women, besides becoming an expensive night, you look increasingly desperate.

Compliments too, as strange as that might seem (I'm a nice guy, I definitely drift to that side), but not only could that be interpreted as "he's just saying that to get in my pants", but it is sort of disingenuine if you use that to meet a woman - kind of cheesy, since you really don't know her enough to compliment her.

Really, it boils down to flipping the game around. Use the trickery that women rely on...
if they buy you a drink, you know they like you, more so than women would know if a guy bought them a drink since so many of them are just playing the bar game...
If you temper your compliments with some light, but genuine criticisms, it not only brings her down to reality, but makes your compliments understood as sincere.

It actually makes sense - they just aren't covering much of the "why would they do what they do" on this season. :-(

That's for people in a hurry who need to move their after-glow up, and multi-task it in as before-glow and during-glow?

I'm trying to remember what it feels like to not be anxious...

That's the thing - it's the transformation from "completely socially inept" to "master of the universe". And not by really doing anything but manipulating the variables of what controls attraction - the science of psychology.

I was a huge fan of Beauty and the Geek maybe even more - because it did the same thing - zero to hero - and then on the other hand, took a bunch of delusional girls and helped bring them down to earth.

Well, McCain gave a very classy concession speech.
One thing I wouldn't ever criticize McCain - his heart is clearly in the right place, and is clearly in his work.

Either candidate would have been a major improvement compared to Bush.

And beyond that, Obama's election gives me hope that this country isn't comprised of fearful, racist, gullible people. I've had the feeling it was for the past 4 years - I can finally reconnect my jaw, which fell off 4 years ago when Bush was reelected...

There was once a Bloodhound Gang song called "I wish I was queer, so I could get chicks"

I didn't call all McCain supporters ignorant - I'm criticizing the McCain supporters who are ignorant.
In other words (as I was careful to choose wording to isolate, such as "a good chunk of McCain supporters), some but not all.

What I said was, "what if you took the McCain supporters who ARE making their decisions based on virtues of ignorance - racism, internet rumor, beliefs that he is Muslim - apparently that voting for him will lead to war is a new one to me (above) - that the campaign might not be close.

I wouldnt' be surprised if more than 10% of McCain supporters were supporting McCain because they had some emotional fear, like racism or believing Obama is a terrorist because his middle name is Hussein...

But no where did I ever say, or imply, that all McCain supporters were ignorant...

Wow, I think that pretty much exemplifies the ignorance I was talking about...
You wouldn't vote for him because three letters off his name would... spell something?
Man, it doesn't stop.

And you might not have noticed but our current government has done more to harm our perception in the world than any in US history.

Click the link for that Readers Digest global poll - you can see the results for other countries. In nearly every case, it's less than 10% support for McCain, and over 80% support for Obama - except in the US, the only place in the world where it's even close.

And much of that, due to ignorant people...
Too many McCain supporters criticisms of Obama sound like skinhead criticisms of those they hate, or Ku Klux Klan members - not facts, just this fear from ignorance...

Realize this:
You get in wars when the world perceives you as an evil empire.
In 8 years, we've gone from being perceived as a pillar of reason, to being militarily aggressive, UN-defying radicals. We have to fix that, and there's actually LOGIC behind that statement.

Click that readers digest poll. Not only would McCain prolong the war that's doing us so much damage in the way the world perceives us, but a vote for McCain further isolates us - from 90% of the world agreeing with a vote for Obama, to less than 10% of them understanding a vote for McCain.

Personally, I DON'T want war - so I don't want to isolate us in the world, nor create the perception (again) that the US population supports wasting our efforts, and in fact depleting our defenses on continuing the radically militant policies that we have under Bush.

Simply put - I don't understand your argument, somehow tying Obama to war?
Sounds like another internet rumor I haven't heard of yet.

There's a computer program that produces great dates?
Cool!